Highest altitude murder?
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Highest altitude murder?
What is the highest altitude first-degree murder (Not including negligence or refusal to save someone's life, and not including in an airplane)?
I found this one at a 14,000' base camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Nang ... t_massacre
I found this one at a 14,000' base camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Nang ... t_massacre
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Re: Highest altitude murder?
It's gotta be when the aggro dude in Vertical Limit kills the trip leader with the syringe full of air when they are trapped in the crevasse. By my educated guess, they must've been at least 24,000 feet.
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Re: Highest altitude murder?
there is a long standing "rumor" in the Argentinian mountaineering world of 2 suspicious deaths on Aconcagua's polish glacier from about 20 years ago. if this was indeed a murder, it would put it between 19.3 - 22k ft.
a married couple + an additional female climber went up on the glacier...only the married woman came down. rumor is, she figured out her husband was cheating on her with the other climber and developed the expedition as a way to cover their murders. i first heard this interesting rumor from an argentinian guide while on acon.
a married couple + an additional female climber went up on the glacier...only the married woman came down. rumor is, she figured out her husband was cheating on her with the other climber and developed the expedition as a way to cover their murders. i first heard this interesting rumor from an argentinian guide while on acon.
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Re: Highest altitude murder?
Sounds like you've got some great aspirations Mike, lol.
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Haha strive to be #1!
I just want to be absolutely certain before I invest in the expedition.
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The Taliban killed eleven people at the Nanga Parbat basecamp (14,100') in 2013.
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Re: Highest altitude murder?
Mallory-Irvine murder-suicide on the summit of Everest.
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I saw a group of crows above the summit of Mt. Everest.
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Re: Highest altitude murder?
perfect!!Craig Barlow wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:32 pm I saw a group of crows above the summit of Mt. Everest.